Board with the Ironing
*yawn*
Exploring the neurobiology of politics... there are two cognitive styles—a liberal style and a conservative style,”...
[Subjects were] instructed to tap a keyboard when an M appeared on a computer monitor and to refrain from tapping when they saw a W.
M appeared four times more frequently than W, conditioning participants to press a key in knee-jerk fashion whenever they saw a letter. ...
“provided an elegant demonstration that individual differences on a conservative-liberal dimension are strongly related to brain activity.”... liberals could be expected to more readily accept new social, scientific or religious ideas.
...Even before summer’s end, Matzzie and company were working to undermine the credibility of an upbeat progress report from Petraeus, who appears to oppose a substantial drawdown of troops in Iraq. “Most of what we have to do will be done before he lands in Washington,” Matzzie told me in late August. “We have to frame his statements before he makes them. He’s not Saint Petraeus — he’s General Petraeus."
Posted by Claire on 09/10 at 04:47 PM
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